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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active October 14, 2025 09:37
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@mwhite
mwhite / expanded_history.py
Last active April 20, 2020 19:21
Bash history with bash and git aliases expanded
"""
Outputs history with bash and git aliases expanded.
"""
from __future__ import print_function
import re
from subprocess import check_output
BASH_ALIASES = {}
for line in check_output('bash -i -c "alias -p"', shell=True).split('\n'):
@chanks
chanks / gist:7585810
Last active July 22, 2025 01:00
Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

RDBMS-based job queues have been criticized recently for being unable to handle heavy loads. And they deserve it, to some extent, because the queries used to safely lock a job have been pretty hairy. SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by an UPDATE works fine at first, but then you add more workers, and each is trying to SELECT FOR UPDATE the same row (and maybe throwing NOWAIT in there, then catching the errors and retrying), and things slow down.

On top of that, they have to actually update the row to mark it as locked, so the rest of your workers are sitting there waiting while one of them propagates its lock to disk (and the disks of however many servers you're replicating to). QueueClassic got some mileage out of the novel idea of randomly picking a row near the front of the queue to lock, but I can't still seem to get more than an an extra few hundred jobs per second out of it under heavy load.

So, many developers have started going straight t

@timyates
timyates / Currying.java
Last active March 7, 2020 07:11
Currying and composition in Java 8
package java8tests ;
import java.util.function.BiFunction ;
import java.util.function.Function ;
public class Currying {
public void currying() {
// Create a function that adds 2 integers
BiFunction<Integer,Integer,Integer> adder = ( a, b ) -> a + b ;
@mobilemind
mobilemind / git-tag-delete-local-and-remote.sh
Last active August 10, 2025 11:21
how to delete a git tag locally and remote
# delete local tag '12345'
git tag -d 12345
# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
git push origin :refs/tags/12345
# alternative approach
git push --delete origin tagName
git tag -d tagName

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns                     on recent CPU
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns                     14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns                     20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs 4X memory

@mscharhag
mscharhag / Java8DateTimeExamples.java
Created February 24, 2014 19:53
Examples for using the Java 8 Date and Time API (JSR 310)
import java.time.*;
import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
import java.time.format.FormatStyle;
import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;
import java.util.*;
import static java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters.*;
public class Java8DateTimeExamples {
@nwinkler
nwinkler / pom.xml
Last active March 25, 2023 20:49
Combining the git-flow branching model and the Maven Release Plugin to play nice. Based on info found here: http://vincent.demeester.fr/2012/07/maven-release-gitflow/
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>group</groupId>
<artifactId>dummy</artifactId>
<name>Dummy Project</name>
<version>1.0.12</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<scm>
<connection>scm:git:https://......</connection>
<tag>HEAD</tag>